Dust and cinder conveyer for railway passenger-coaches.



J'. W. MALPHURS. DUST AND CINDER CONVEYER FOR RAILWAY PASSENGER COACHES.

APPLICATION FILED $EPT.6,19|I- 1,271,918. Patented July 9,1918.

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JOEL W. MALPHURS, 0F GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA.

DUST AND CINDER CONVEYER FOR RAILWAY PASSENGER-COACHES.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed September 6, 1917. Serial N 0. 189,988..

will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a side View of the invention, as applied.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1.

The invention has relation to dust and cinder conveyors for passenger coaches of railway trains, having for its object to provide an improved device of this description.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 2 designates a passenger coach, upon the outside of which, at each side, is secured by suitable means a pipe line 3, horizontally arranged just below the sills of the windows 4, said pipe having at one end a funnel-shaped or flaring mouthpiece 5, detachably connected to the pipe line, as by a telescoping connection 6, and at its other end having a short downwardly bent piece of pipe 7, detachably connected to said end, as by a telescopic connection 8.

Along the line of the pipe, at intervals suitably spaced apart, are a series of upwardly projecting nipples 'or tubular ipe extensions 9, 9, one for each window 0 the coach and located precisely in the middle of the space between the windows.

Connected with these tubular extensions are a series of funnel-shaped or flaring mouthpieces 10, 10, each provided with a tubular downwardextension 11, detachably engaging its nipple 9.

In the operation of the invention, the flaring mouthpiece 5 being located forwardly of the coach, air will enter therein, in the swift movement of the train, and will create a strong draft of air in the pipe line, said draft creating a strong suction of air in the top funnels or mouthpieces located at the rear vertical margin of each window, so that all dust and cinders which would ordinarily pass into the open windows of the coach will be drawn toward and pass into the niouthpieces 10, into the pipe line and to the ground at the rear end of said line.

In the reversal of the movement of the train, should the coaches not be changed end for end, it is only necessary to change the end funnel to the other end of the pipe line and to reverse the top funnels, the short downwardly bent pipe being connected with what is now the rear end of the pipe line.

The pipe lines and the funnels are flattened, to bring them close to the side of the coach, are readily attached to any coach, and will add greatly to the comforts of travel.

I claim:

In a dust and cinders conveyer for railway passenger coaches, a pipe line mounted horizontally at the side of the coach below the windows thereof and having imperforate bottom and side walls and upper vertical tubular neck extensions, a series of vertical mouth-pieces located above said pipe line between said windows and opening at the rear vertical margins of the latter, said mouth-pieces having lower vertical neck extensions engaging the upper extensions of the pipe line, a flaring mouth-piece for the forward end of said pipe line and a depending tubular cinder discharge extension for the other end of the pipe line.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOEL W. MALPHURS.

Witnesses:

J B, BROOKS, S. H. WIEItGEs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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Patented July 9, 1918. 

